M 4.6 in China on 21 May 2015 16:05 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1055476
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 20.44 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.8658 , 121.7967
Event Date: 21 May 2015 16:05 UTC
22 May 2015 00:05 Local
Exposed Population:
11587850 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2015 18:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),